Magical Christmas 2009...

I love Christmas. The magic, family, food, and the light in my children's eyes on Christmas morning. Hunter was really fun this year. His Christmas list was very short and very expensive. A John Deere tractor, a bow, and a shotgun. Stephen and I tried to tell him that Santa told us he was not getting his tractor because he has enough riding toys, but he was not having it. Santa brought him a spiderman bike instead, a bow, and several shotguns. The most special gift of all this year was from his Paw Paw and it was Ithaca single barrel 410 shotgun. It was passed down to him from Paw Paw because it was the first gun that his Paw Paw bought for his Daddy when he was 5. Of all the gifts that Hunter received nothing compared to that shotgun.
Brittaney got her I Pod and clothes. Austin got clothes, shoes, and Xbox live (which he thought Daddy and Heather were dumb because we tried to buy it at Wal-Mart...and really he was the dumb one). We really had him going thinking that we knew nothing about Xbox live because we wanted to surprise him and it worked. Brian got a predator call and a new car. The whole family got a Wii. Santa was really good to us this year, we must have been really good.
Christmas Eve night we made Santa's favorite cookies, chocolate covered peanut butter ritz crackers, read Twas the night before Christmas, and sprinkled our reindeer food. After all of the excitement it was time for bed. We had to explain to Hunter that he had to sleep in his bed because Santa will only deliver if everyone is in their own bed's. He made sure that the two older boys knew to sleep in their bed's and told them to go to sleep because he wanted Santa to hurry up and come. Stephen and I were whispering to each other about how blessed we truly are and Hunter quickly told us to be quiet and go to sleep. Austin knew that he could come and wake us up once he got up. Little did I know that he would be waking up at 5 a.m. He told me that he laid in bed until 6 a.m. and finally went back to sleep until Hunter woke him up at 7 a.m. Hunter came into the living room, peaked around the corner and saw the presents then started going through the house waking up everyone saying "get up, get up Santa Claus came". It was magical...I love Christmas, my children, and my sweet husband.